The universe is big, weird, and filled with unexpected things. It’s the reason we send space probes to far reaches of our solar system and into deep space, it’s the reason we build telescopes, and ...

Scientists have achieved the first confirmed detection of an isolated stellar-mass black hole, weighing over seven solar masses and located approximately 5,200 light-years away. This detection ...

In 2022, a team led by Kailash Sahu achieved the first confirmed detection of an isolated stellar-mass black hole, addressing the challenge of observing the vast majority of quiescent black holes not ...

Scientists have announced the first-ever unambiguous discovery of a free-floating black hole, a rogue wanderer in the void some 5,000 light-years from Earth. The result, which appeared January 31 on ...

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We're just weeks away from the release of the first images taken by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, and while that occasion will be momentous, there is far more science to come. One of the James ...